Minnesota!

[KlopKlop]

@Minniechickmama I am pretty excited. I got a breeding pen set up yesterday in my shed. I will move my Cornish in there this tonight and hope to set eggs this weekend. They have been with my Dixie Rainbow rooster but I don't know if he has been breeding them or not. I'm a little tempted to put my Buckeye rooster in with them and see what happens. Either should sire some nice meat babies.

 

[KlopKlop]

I did something today that I haven't done in a very long time. After work, I stopped in the store and picked up a carton of eggs. You might be curious why a guy with 50 laying hens is buying eggs... Perhaps I am crazy!?!?

I need fresh material to write about on our farm page so I bought eggs to do some segments on the difference between our farm fresh eggs and store bought eggs. I will try and share on here as well for fun. I am going to try and focus on making this educational and not snarky or high and mighty.

 

[lalaland]

I did something today that I haven't done in a very long time. After work, I stopped in the store and picked up a carton of eggs. You might be curious why a guy with 50 laying hens is buying eggs... Perhaps I am crazy!?!?

I need fresh material to write about on our farm page so I bought eggs to do some segments on the difference between our farm fresh eggs and store bought eggs. I will try and share on here as well for fun. I am going to try and focus on making this educational and not snarky or high and mighty.

"I did something today that I haven't done in a very long time. " you mean, post here?

seriously, though, it will be fun to see what you come up with!
Are you getting new chicks this year to add to your flock? Do I remember right that they are all about a year old?

edited to add I see your post above now, ....oops

 

[lalaland]

Hi all! I feel like was hibernating but now with the warmer weather all I want to do is hang out with the chickens and buy more chicks and renovate the coop and sit with the chickens and chickens. Chickens. Thanks for all the posts that kept me busy this morning. Have a good day!

I know!

I spent a good hour or two yesterday on a lawn chair supervising the flock while they were out in the grassy area. Very industrious, serious eating of the green grass/clover leaves. The rooster gave alarm calls twice, once for an eagle, and once for some grazing does.

So far, no ticks!

I haven't freed the quail yet because I don't really trust that it is spring.

I've decided that the buff orp has saplingitius, and she is the one that I nursed earlier this winter. Poor baby, there really isn't much I can do for her. From my reading, they haven't found antibiotics to be effective which I don't understand since it is an infection. As long as she is enjoying life (eating, alert and moving) I'll let her be, but will have to cull her in the days ahead.

 

[KlopKlop]

"I did something today that I haven't done in a very long time. "   you mean, post here? 


seriously, though, it will be fun to see what you come up with!
Are you getting new chicks this year to add to your flock?  Do I remember right that they are all about a year old?

edited to add I see your post above now, ....oops

Yeah I haven't had too much interesting stuff to share recently. Been busy at work too but that is starting to slow down luckily.
Sometimes if I don't have anything too interesting to say and post anyways I feel like I'm spamming you guys

I don't remember if I told you guys or not, I did place an order to Hoovers for 15 Speckled Sussex and 10 ISA Browns. They will come 3/22
We are looking forward to having chicks again. We have hens that are 1, 2, and 3 years old so we are adding the next generation now. We are down to abut 45 hens right now and hope to be around 60 going into next winter. Depending how broiler breeding goes with my rainbow hens they may or may not be sticking around. They eat and eat and don't lay very well. But that may also be the season, time will tell. One of them shows signs of wanting to be broody, which we will allow if she does.

 

[KlopKlop]

So I have this CA white (leghorn). She is the funniest little hen. We named her White Castle. All the kids that come here for my CSA we run love visiting her. She's now started to do tricks on her own. I was holding treats one day and she started jumping up and down like a little dog. I decided to see if she would jump for treats and sure enough she would jump up and take the treat out of your hand. Now, today I was on the phone outside and all of a sudden someone flew up on my shoulder like a parrot. I was standing, so it was a big launch. This isn't the first time she's done this. She will ride around on your shoulder when you walk then. I'm thinking of trying to train her to do it on command. She is the smartest chicken I've owned. She's so funny. Has anyone had a chicken act like this before? 

This cracks me up. We have 2 white leghorns and they are the most curious and adventurous birds we have! They are always the first ones out and about in the morning and always the first to meet me at the shed for treats

I almost got a few brown leghorns chicks in this Hoovers order but just couldn't talk myself into it. They are eye candy and lay well but nobody wants white eggs from us

 

[holm25]

@holm25
 I meant to tell you, we only had one of the does kindle over the weekend, and she only had two and one was a 'peanut' (double dwarf baby who wouldn't have lived for a week), but they both chilled and died the first day, even with a heat lamp on them.  That is a crazy thing too, they won't stay together or in the warm spot long enough to keep warm sometimes. It doesn't do any good to raise just one on its own either because they get fat as heck.  The last time we had a single Holland, it got so fat that its back legs were splayed and couldn't get them under him at all and it never corrected.  Sometimes that stuff happens and I want to throw in the towel on them.  smh


I rebred almost all the does this weekend though, so maybe I will be seeing some litters in a month.  I sure hope so!

That really stinks! I hope u have better luck with the next batch! So do u still have the single Holland?

 

[holm25]

And they say dogs are mans best friend! I sat down by the edge of a bale feeder and she came and layed down next to me! Next thing u know I am being used as a pillow!

This is the cow I used in 4H last year.

 

[athalia17]

I did something today that I haven't done in a very long time. After work, I stopped in the store and picked up a carton of eggs. You might be curious why a guy with 50 laying hens is buying eggs... Perhaps I am crazy!?!?

I need fresh material to write about on our farm page so I bought eggs to do some segments on the difference between our farm fresh eggs and store bought eggs. I will try and share on here as well for fun. I am going to try and focus on making this educational and not snarky or high and mighty.

30% less cholesterol I read, from free range eggs.

I think I might have to do a video of my leghorn. Aren't they so funny?!

 

[cottonlouie]

I just found a chick under broody momma this morning! First ever chick to hatch under my care. I'm so excited I feel like it's the only chick alive on the planet and precious. I need to get a grip but omg I'm so excited. It's more exciting than anything I've had happen in a long long while.